Pocket



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POCKET.

No. 605 Patented June 21,1898.

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HENRY BANDLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,840, dated June 21,1898 Application filed July 2,1897. Serial No. 643,236. (No model.)

T 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BANDLER, a citizen of the United'State's,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pockets, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings.

My invention consists of a pocket proper which is provided with anauxiliary pocket, said parts being formed of front, rear, andintermediate pieces, having their sides connectsection thereof on line yy, Fig. 2.

7 ed, the intermediate piece being provided with a vertical passage andthe rear piece extending above said passage and below the intermediatepiece and folded upwardly and connected with the bottoms of the frontand intermediate pieces.

Figure lrepresents a side elevation of a pocket embodying my invention,portions of the walls thereof having been removed. Fig. 2 represents avertical section thereof on line a: 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents ahorizontal Fig. at represents a horizontal section thereof on line 2 a,Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates part of a coat, vest, or othergarment to which the pocket embodying my invention is secured, the mouthor opening of said pocket being shownva't A, said pocket consisting ofthe back piece B, the front piece 0, and the intermediate piece D, thelower end of the intermediate piece D joining the piece 0 at the line E,forming the bottom of the pocket proper, F, which bottom is entirelyclosed on said line, so that books, pencils,' &c., may be placed in saidpocket proper and rested on said bottom, as usual, in pockets withoutliability to drop into the auxiliary pocket. The

- back piece B extends below the bottom of the pocket F and is continuedupward, as at B, joining the front piece 0 at E, the lower bend J of thepieces B B forming the bottom of the auxiliary pocket 1-1. In the pieceD is the vertical slit G, the upper end of the rear piece extendingabovethe upper end of said slit, it being noticed that said slit forms acommunication or passage between the two pocket-s F and H, said slitbeing primarily closed.

The auxiliary pocket has an unoccupied chamber below the bottom of thepocket proper, it being noticed that the bottoms E and J extend entirelyacross the respective pockets, or approximately so, thus preserving thewidth of each pocket. The back piece B is stitched or otherwise securedat top to the fabric of the garment adjacent to the mouth A, so ,as toclose the top of the auxiliary pocket, whereby should the garment beoverturned, as the bottom of the auxiliary pocket is in communicationwith the upper portion thereof, the contents of said pocket will fallinto what was previously thetop of the auxiliary pocket and be retainedthere, said top bagging to some extent owin g to the stitching orsecuring of the same to the fabric of the garment, whereby the loss ofsaid contents in the overturned pocket is prevented.

Theoperation is as follows: The hand is inserted into the pocket Fthrough the mouth accomplished by the insertion of the handthrough theslot G, so as to reach said pocket and the contents thereof. Should,however, while the pocket H is occupied attempts be pocket requires toopen the slit G, a manipulation to which the attention of the wearerofthe garment would be directed or attracted,

hand inserted in the pocket F will pass the slit G and find nothing ofany value worth abstracting in said pocket G. For watches the same willbe introduced into the auxiliary pocket H and the chain occupythecorrefsponding portion of the slit F. Should an attempt be made toabstract the watch by draft on the chain, the watch will abut againstthe opposite walls of the slit at the top of the pieces B and D andbetween the latter, while its body will remain back of said walls, thusmade to reach the same, the hand of the' 'pickthe efiect of which isevident.- Ordinarily the 7 controlling the watch, the proper removal ofwhich may, however, be accomplished by drawing it from the pocket IIthrough the slit G without permitting it to engage with the tops of thepieces B and D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A pocket consisting of front, rear and intermediate pieces having theirsides connected,

I0 the intermediate piece having a vertical pas-

